At the end of the regular season, the top player in each conference will make the playoffs (based only on conference record), and they will be seeded #1 to #3 by RPI. The next three highest players will be seeded #4 to #6. In the first round of the playoffs #3 plays #6 and #4 plays #5, while #1 and #2 get byes. #7 through #18 will play a post-season bowl game against a similarly rated opponent, with higher achieving players earning entrance into the more prestigious bowl games, as follows:

Scout Bowl: #17 vs. #18

Miner Bowl: #15 vs. #16

Sergeant Bowl: #13 vs. #14

Lieutenant Bowl: #11 vs. #12

Captain Bowl: #9 vs. #10

Major Bowl: #7 vs. #8

Colonel Bowl: First-round playoff losers compete

General Bowl: 3rd place-game for semi-final losers

Marshal Bowl: The NASF Championship!

A note about RPI if you’re interested: RPI is a weighted average of a player’s win percentage (25%), average win percentage of the player’s opponents (50%), and average opponent’s win percentage of a player’s opponents. When figuring a player’s opponent’s win percentage, results between the two players are disregarded. RPI has been used to determine rankings of NCAA basketball and baseball teams.

Here is a spreadsheet showing all the season results and RPI computations.